Infosys, the tech giant which owns a sprawling campus on the Airport road in Hubballi has revealed the reason why they are unable to start operations from its Hubballi unit.
Santosh Nargund, a Civic activist from Hubballi had approached K-tech and KITS (Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society) seeking the reason why Infosys was not starting operations from Hubballi in January 2021.
He had requested KITS to state the reason and extend their support to co-ordinate with Infosys to start operations from Hubballi as soon as possible with the help of district management.
Following his letter, KITS had written to Niladri Prasad Mishra, Global head infrastructure of Infosys to start operations from Hubballi assuring full co-operation from K-tech and KITS.
Replying to KITS in a letter, Niladri Prasad Mishra (on 19th March 2021) had stated that they are hindered by Infrastructure challenges regarding Business travel for their operations/expansion.
‘Lack of direct International flights and limited domestic flight options have made it hard for the company to expand/start operations from North Karnataka or Hubballi in particular’ he added.
However, that is not entirely true as Hubballi Airport has direct flight connections with most of the major metros of India including Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Delhi (Hindon), Chennai.
‘Hubballi Dharwad region is in the initial stage of attracting IT industries. The entire ecosystem is still in the Nascent stage and yet to develop in the North Karnataka region.’ Mishra added.
KIADB had handed over 43.05 acres of land to Infosys to start IT & ITES industry in 2015. The tech giant had commenced SEZ business operations on 4th June 2018.
The Hubballi unit of Infosys has a capacity of 1400 employees. The sprawling campus is spread over 3,64,000 Sq.ft with all the facilities including the Food court and others.
Well in that case how did they open the Mysore campus. Mysore doesn’t have any international flight connectivity so far. They need to come up with a better reason.
Yes, Even there is no facility of international flight , but still they opened and even projects are handling,so y not in hubballi itz very moveable place to every one and start operations early so that we fresher can join there ,to start our experience in corporate sector as a career.We wish let it start fast.
Hubli to Ahmedabad ke flight jaldi se chalu 🙏 karvavo ji
I think Hubli to jodhpur flight is the most awaited flight route.
Infosys will start whenever they think better.
One can easily start international flights atleast via Dubai UAE
The reason for the operation to begin cannot be put it on international connectivity. Hardly in 400 Kms distance Bangalore & Pube cities are available. Thanks to BJP Government that roads conditions are so good that u can reach any city less than 5 hours with tea/coffee break. Surprisingly to reach from Bangalore Airport to Electronic City it takes 3 hours crossing 12-14 traffic signals & same as in Pune. It’s a pure excuses & nothing more.
We can always bring pressure through Mr. Pralhad JoshI who is holding key post in Central Government & he is the man behind expansions of Hubli airport & Railways platform.
Let Infosys helps to young Engineers for employments & we citizens helps them to get international connectivity.
Jai Hind. 🇮🇳
Very rightly said 👍